No instrument which affects the title to or interest in any civil aircraft of the United States, or any portion thereof, is valid in respect to such aircraft, or portion thereof, against any person, other than the person by whom the instrument is made or given, the person’s heirs or devisee, and any person having actual notice thereof, until such instrument is recorded in the office of the Federal Aviation Administrator of the United States, or such other office as is designated by the laws of the United States as the one in which such instruments should be filed. Every such instrument so recorded in such office is valid as to all persons without further recordation in any office of this state. Any instrument required to be recorded by the provisions of this section takes effect from the date of its recordation and not from the date of its execution.
Fla. Stat. § 329.01
Recording instruments affecting civil aircraft
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Air Florida Systems, Inc. v. United States (In Re Air Florida Systems, Inc.) (1985)
Most recently applied in 883 F. Supp. 2d 1175 - United States v. Starcher (July 2012)
History.--s. 1, ch. 22673, 1945; s. 1, ch. 84-259; s. 470, ch. 95-148.
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